Tall Tower Tale

Updated June 28, 2006 12:01 a.m. ET

A plan to erect the tallest building on the Korean peninsula, in the shape of the Eiffel Tower, has been scrapped and replaced with a more original design. But the Korean air force still has objections.

Seoul officials rejected a plan in March by Lotte Moolsan, a unit of privately held Japanese-South Korean conglomerate Lotte Group, to build an homage to the Paris icon as unoriginal. Baltimore-based RTKL Associates, which designed an early version of the plan, said it was carrying out the wishes of the developer. "We...